Steven Jones, MD
Sports Medicine · Hammond, LANPI 1710428917
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $29,485 of the $38,036 with a category attached, or 77.5%. Smith+Nephew accounts for 61.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $16,765 and has fallen 92.4% since, to $1,272 in 2025. Among sports medicine clinicians in LA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 117 payments — averaging $325.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Smith+Nephew$24K
- Evolution Surgical, Inc$5K
- Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC$3K
- Arthrex$3K
- ALON Medical Technology$2K
- Stryker$880
- plus $822 from 8 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$5,00713%
- Food & beverage$3,5449%
- Education$29,48578%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Smith+Nephew | 16 | $23,556 |
| Evolution Surgical, Inc | 8 | $4,920 |
| Gemini Mountain Medical, LLC | 3 | $3,435 |
| Arthrex | 40 | $2,888 |
| ALON Medical Technology | 12 | $1,535 |
| Stryker | 24 | $880 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $267 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 2 | $185 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $119 |
| Linvatec Corporation | 1 | $106 |
| Globus Medical | 2 | $51 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $42 |
| Exactech, Inc. | 1 | $33 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- AETOS Shoulder System$1,113
- Bioinductive Implant with Arthroscopic Delivery System - Medium$1,110
- Mini-Open Latarjet$982
- MICRORAPTOR$982
- Q-FIX$982
- Healicoil$711
- TWINFIX$131
- PROGEL$119
- INSPACE$118
- INHANCE$115
- VA-LCP$107
- BioBrace 23mm$106
How this compares
$38,036 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 82 sports medicine providers in Louisiana.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 41 | $226 |
| Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | 22 | $155 |
| Ondansetron OdtOndansetron | 14 | $92 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $88 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $53 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other sports medicine in Hammond
- Katy MorrisHammond$22K
- Jeffrey WittyHammond$8K
- Nathan HenslerHammond$539
- Felix SavoieNew Orleans$1.4M
- Misty SuriNew Orleans$1.2M
- Michael ObrienNew Orleans$391K
- Brett CascioLake Charles$82K
- Brian GodshawNew Orleans$69K
- Andrew GottschalkJefferson$45K
- Michael LeddyAlexandria$44K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.